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Re: JAWS and ARIA's application role

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From: McKeithan, Thomas
Date: Jul 6, 2011 11:15AM

From my experience with Jaws v11, there are inconsistent results in terms of behavior within applications. I've found that JAWS12 is much more stable.

Respectfully,
Thomas Lee McKeithan II
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS and ARIA's application role

On 06/07/2011 13:29, Pratik Patel wrote:

> Can you provide information about the browser in which you tested this? With
> so many recent changes to browsers, please also provide the version number.
> What version of JAWS?

I apologize for not including this fundamental information. Here it is:

Browser: Firefox 5
JAWS: 11.0.1471

During my experimentation with screen readers and ARIA, I have noticed
how fragile and inconsistent the outcome can be depending on the
combination of different types and versions of browser and screen
reader. So far, I believe the best combination I have had was Firefox 4
and JAWS 12. But because our clients are still using JAWS 11, we're
stuck with that.

Regards,

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